And we’ve had two straight last places in years #4 and #5 of the ‘rebuild’ with trading Coleman and losing Hall/Vat setting back the timeline further. Saying we have mostly Shero guys now after two straight last places is a horrible defense of him.
This makes no sense whatsoever. How is someone able to flip a team with no assets, an old and depleted roster and a farm system that was equivalent to the team I play on every Thursday night in my beer league?
Are we aware that most of the picks he made are still playing junior hockey? Are we aware that every single valuable asset we have now is because of Shero?
Ray’s role was to get this team off of life support and get us out of bed so to speak but some are scratching their heads as to why we’re not running marathons. There was absolutely no way for us to be competitive in the timeframe, certain fans were expecting. They didn’t care about what got us there, they just wanted results.
He and Fitz have set us to have a very competitive team in the not too distant future and this years draft, whenever it’ll take place, will be the spring board that will move us from bottom feeders to legit contenders.
I know it’s not easy, I know it takes time but if you do it correctly, which is exactly what we’re doing at the moment, we’ll be in the drivers seat for the next decade plus!